Kyle Chayka
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
lmao great Shouts & Murmurs www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
lmao great Shouts & Murmurs www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
wrote some digital media criticism in my One Thing newsletter, on the need to organize audiences online onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/gathering-...
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
wrote some digital media criticism in my One Thing newsletter, on the need to organize audiences online onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/gathering-...
we've lost the idea of the computer desktop and the customizable, controllable individuality that it entailed
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
we've lost the idea of the computer desktop and the customizable, controllable individuality that it entailed
Ed Caesar's lastest @newyorker.com feature is full of amazing details, read it!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ed Caesar's lastest @newyorker.com feature is full of amazing details, read it!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
the necessity of ghosting
September 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
the necessity of ghosting
especially with the dawn of AI editing tools, nothing is a finished product: the online audience changes what a song sounds like
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
especially with the dawn of AI editing tools, nothing is a finished product: the online audience changes what a song sounds like
shut it down, ban it, regulate it. no one would tolerate this from medicine, and from a human being it would be criminal
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
shut it down, ban it, regulate it. no one would tolerate this from medicine, and from a human being it would be criminal
this genre is my fav response to anything I write
August 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
this genre is my fav response to anything I write
had to dip into my buried knowledge of late-2000s indie pop
August 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
had to dip into my buried knowledge of late-2000s indie pop
david please read the piece and stop this
August 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
david please read the piece and stop this
lately I often think of this lead I wrote in Dec 2023 www.newyorker.com/culture/2023...
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
lately I often think of this lead I wrote in Dec 2023 www.newyorker.com/culture/2023...
another example of a tie-up between publications and solo media creators, tho Verge also has or had a syndication deal with Platformer iirc
August 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
another example of a tie-up between publications and solo media creators, tho Verge also has or had a syndication deal with Platformer iirc
Lauren Collins performing the absolute perfect New Yorker beginning of the second section historical jump back www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lauren Collins performing the absolute perfect New Yorker beginning of the second section historical jump back www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
great paragraph on Wimbledon by Louisa Thomas @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
July 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
great paragraph on Wimbledon by Louisa Thomas @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
Brian Morrissey's rules for successful media post-AI www.therebooting.com/the-demise-o...
July 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Brian Morrissey's rules for successful media post-AI www.therebooting.com/the-demise-o...
the damage of oversharing and pulling back being a correction from the past mistake of oversharing is in this graf
July 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
the damage of oversharing and pulling back being a correction from the past mistake of oversharing is in this graf
already getting hot tips from Ina Garten's substack inagarten.substack.com/p/its-almost...
June 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
already getting hot tips from Ina Garten's substack inagarten.substack.com/p/its-almost...
In yet another study of ChatGPT as a creativity tool, AI users came up with less original and less diverse creative ideas in the context of improving a product or envisioning the consequences of an imaginary situation. Human originality is overwhelmed by the instant output of the machine:
June 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In yet another study of ChatGPT as a creativity tool, AI users came up with less original and less diverse creative ideas in the context of improving a product or envisioning the consequences of an imaginary situation. Human originality is overwhelmed by the instant output of the machine:
Another study, which included American and Indian test subjects, found that when the Indian subjects used ChatGPT, the writing they produced and the ideas and examples they referenced became markedly less specific, more generic and westernized — it dampened their personal cultural expression
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Another study, which included American and Indian test subjects, found that when the Indian subjects used ChatGPT, the writing they produced and the ideas and examples they referenced became markedly less specific, more generic and westernized — it dampened their personal cultural expression
writing with ChatGPT means that your brain is literally less activated and less interconnected, when compared to using Google Search or writing unassisted. Test subjects couldn't remember or quote from essays they had written if they used AI:
June 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
writing with ChatGPT means that your brain is literally less activated and less interconnected, when compared to using Google Search or writing unassisted. Test subjects couldn't remember or quote from essays they had written if they used AI:
built-in ball pit in this DC rowhouse www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
built-in ball pit in this DC rowhouse www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
I asked ChatGPT to render what the next generation of all-encompassing portable personal AI device is going to look like
May 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I asked ChatGPT to render what the next generation of all-encompassing portable personal AI device is going to look like